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SC restores Life Imprisonment to Accused for raping and burning alive a young...
Ashok KMSupreme Court, on Monday, has sentenced a man accused of raping and burning alive a young girl for life imprisonment. Apex Court bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and Arun Mishra reversed the...
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The Chairmanship Conundrum: BCI withdraws ‘concession’ granted to Tamil Nadu...
Apoorva MandhaniPutting an end to the hullaballoo over the actual appointee to the post of Chairman of Bar Council of India, the apex regulatory body has issued a notification withdrawing the...
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No Bull-ying this Pongal: SC stays Centre’s notification allowing Jallikattu...
Apoorva MandhaniThe Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an interim stay on Centre’s notification which had paved way for engaging in the banned bull-taming sport, Jallikattu during Pongal celebrations in...
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SC asks Prashant Bhushan whether his NGO CPIL has any mechanism to verify...
Live Law News NetworkThe illustrious NGO, the ‘Centre for Public Interest Litigation’ which enjoys enormous the credibility in Indian Courts, had to face some unconventional questions from Chief...
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Best of 2015; Eight Significant RTI Verdicts from Supreme Court, High Courts...
LiveLaw News NetworkNation celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Right to Information Act in 2015. This year witnessed some landmark as well as regressive orders from the Constitutional Courts,...
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Supreme Court dismisses a Twenty year old suit against widow by her daughter...
Ashok KMThe Supreme Court on Tuesday, in L. Gowramma (D) vs. Sunanda (D), has dismissed a Suit filed against a widow twenty years ago, by her daughter, by reversing concurrent judgments of the High...
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SCOTUS holds Florida Capital Sentencing scheme Unconstitutional [Read Judgment]
Ashok KMThe Sixth Amendment protects a defendant’s right to an impartial jury. This right required Florida to base Timothy Hurst’s death sentence on a jury’s verdict, not a judge’s fact-finding, said...
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Marines Case:Italian Senator says Latorre will not return, SC to hear the...
Apoorva MandhaniMassimiliano Latorre, one of the two Italian Marines accused of murdering Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala in 2012, will not be returning to India to face the judicial process,...
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Jallikattu: SC refuses to vacate stay on Centre’s notification [Read Order]
Live Law News NetworkSupreme Court today rejected the plea filed by some residents of Tamil Nadu for vacatings yesterday’s order staying the Centre's notification lifting ban on the controversial...
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Collegium decides to fill 400 High Court vacancies and 5 in SC without...
Apoorva MandhaniIn a meeting convened last week, the five member SC collegium has, in principle, decided to start the process of filling over 400 vacancies in High Courts throughout the country and 5...
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Marines Case: Sorabjee says client Latorre will return to India; SC extends...
Live Law News NetworkThe Supreme Court today asked the centre to appraise it of the status of international arbitration proceedings in the Italian Marines case.The court meanwhile extended the stay of...
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SC says quality of Maggi needs more attention as youngsters consume it;...
Apoorva MandhaniA Supreme Court Bench comprising Justice Dipak Misra and Justice N.V. Ramanna has asked Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore to clarify whether levels of lead and...
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Supreme Court asks Medical College to deposit 5 crores as costs for not...
Ashok KMComing down heavily on a medical college for not complying with its orders in Medical Council of India vs. JSS Medical College, the Supreme Court, on Tuesday, ordered it to deposit five crores...
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SC tells Arunachal Governor not to convene the Assembly Session till Jan 18;...
Anju CletusThe Supreme Court by its order urged the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh not to convene the Assembly Session of the State till 18th of January. The Special Leave Petitions filed by Nabam Rebia...
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Exclusive; DoPT provides list of Lokpal Aspirants, 4 SC Judges nominated for...
Apoorva MandhaniIn a welcome move, the Department of Personnel and Training has provided a complete list of Lokpal aspirants, complying with a CIC verdict on an appeal filed by RTI activist, Mr....
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Arunachal Pradesh Political Crisis: SC refers case to Constitution Bench
Apoorva MandhaniA division bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday referred to Constitution Bench, a batch of petitions filed by Arunachal Pradesh State Assembly Speaker, Nabam Rebia, on the ongoing...
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National Herald Case: Jethmalani revoked offer to defend Sonia after her...
Apoorva MandhaniMr. Ram Jethmalani’s blog has brought to light letters exchanged between him and Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi.In the letter dated December 10, 2015, Mr. Jethmalani had expressed...
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Sabarimala: President of petitioner organization gets threats but SC refuses...
Live Law News NetworkNaushad Ahmed Khan, president of the Indian Young Lawyers Association, whose women members filed a PIL in Supreme Court seeking entry of females into Kerala’s famous Sabarimala...
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Making sense of the crisis in Arunachal Pradesh
LiveLaw Research TeamThe case, Nabam Rebia vs the Registrar, Gauhati High Court, being heard by the five-Judge Constitution bench comprising Justices JS Khehar, Dipak Misra, Madan B Lokur, Pinaki...
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Bombay HC suggests that Corporates allot 2% of profits towards hospital bills...
Apoorva MandhaniA Division Bench of Bombay High Court on Thursday reportedly suggested that corporate companies can allot funds towards Corporate Social Responsibility, setting aside 2% of their...
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